27 Jun 1949
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1949
Page
1
Plans for a new 4-H fairgrounds project in Atlantic aim to build a fine rural youth education center that blends utility and beauty. The development seeks to create a community asset for Atlantic, Cass County, and Western Town, inviting local support and pride.
The piece argues labor’s fierce opposition to Taft-Hartley blocks any compromise and may preserve the current law. It contends the law is the best labor policy to date, with faults fixable by reasonable reform, but militant labor stance blocks gains.
Travel notes show Iowa's wooded areas and surprising white spots in cornfields where topsoil has washed away to reveal yellow clay. The writer urges soil conservation to protect limited moisture and inch-deep silts critical for Iowa and the world, urging recognition of land-saving practices.
A senator’s stand on Switzer’s appointment may split lawmakers and aid a Republican victory next election. Reports note racial tensions in several cities and moves toward desegregation signaling a growing trend. The corn borer situation grows more complex after heavy rains with divergent views on pest impact. spraying to kill pests is advised by a knowledgeable commentator.
A rose runs for a flowers board with sun soil and rain as issues. A shrewd thistle campaigns across fields to daisies promising more yield fewer hours. Ballots reveal roses support the rose and the thistle wins the daisy vote.
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur longtime Stanford leader and Hoover era cabinet member died yesterday of heart disease at 74. The Lincolnlike physician served as Stanford president for 27 years and as chancellor since 1943. He was also a noted educator administrator and humanitarian.
The passage honors a medical advocate who battled for conservation, better housing and care for Indians. He fought medical costs, illiteracy, syphilis, quackery, and substandard medical schools. He founded California physicians service and led the American Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association.
The Catholic church charged the Czechoslovak government with deceit kidnapping and robbery as it warned parishioners that their hour of trial may be at hand in a pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Josef Beran and other church leaders read in churches across the country. The letter said no church state agreement is possible and urged a peaceful stance while criticizing state actions.
The notice lists publication facts for the Atlantic News-Telegraph and details subscription prices by carrier and mail. It includes editors, office phones, post office designation, associations, and varying rates for local Cass county readers, nearby counties, wider Iowa, the U S and Canada.
Ex secretary Clinton Anderson and his successor Charles Brannan settled their dispute with President Truman over the Brannan farm program. They agreed to push a phased approach with production payments, testing on potatoes hogs and wool, while senators slow to act. The AAA urges tourists to be ambassadors, outlining ten travel manners to improve U.S. image abroad.
A fragment notes that printing gear was seized by police at the palace, implying authorities acted against printing operations there. No further details are readable to identify individuals, dates, or organization names.
Norman D. Wissenburg, 34, of Omaha died when his gasoline transport truck overturned on highway 75 south of Honey Creek Indiana, pinning him beneath. Aileen M. Klingaman, 24, of Estherville, Iowa, escaped injury as the truck spilled gasoline but caused no fire with the Council Bluffs fire department on scene.
Funeral services for the Rev. George Leonidas Ovrotas 65 pastor of St. George Greek Orthodox church in Des Moines will be held at the church tomorrow afternoon. Pastors from Greek Orthodox churches in Mason City Sioux City and other midwestern cities are to attend.
Ottumwa reports 17 year old James Lindley drowned after stepping into a deep hole in a creek south of the city yesterday.
Audubon residents marked the eightieth birthday of Carl M. Jensen with a Friday reunion. Jensen, who came to America from Denmark 67 years ago after marriage, lived in Ingris and Harlan before moving to a farm near Fiscus in 1900 and to Audubon 12 years ago. His wife died nine years ago. Attendees included all his children Dr. L. E., Holger, Arnold of Audubon Levi of Griswold Thorvald of Long Beach Calif and daughters Mrs. Carrie Montgomery Colusa Calif Mrs Ella Petersen and Mrs Stella Tague of Audubon Mrs Marie Nelson San Bernardino Calif and many Merrill’s Grove Baptist church members. Also present were Mr and Mrs Andrew Rockedal of Omaha.
The New York Central Palace exhibit showcased a portable electric knife sharpener and a mattress turning device as top practical finds. A promoter predicted the knife sharpener could fetch about eight dollars retail, while the mattress turner saves backs with an axis frame and automatic turning. Comments note typing aids and a shift from round to square milk bottles for space saving.
The piece notes glass bottle shortages raise drug store costs by up to a dime per prescription when bottles are provided locally. A New York area milk distributor retires twenty million round bottles for squares. Latin American and African customers pay about a penny per round quart bottle. Ships with space accept cheap bulk goods.
In Buenos Aires President Peron and officials witnessed Britain and Argentina signing a five year trade agreement ignoring U.S. objections. Sir John Balfour and Argentine ministers sealed the Spanish and English copies in a two minute ceremony. Officials say the pact could limit U.S. access to the Argentine market for oil and farm machinery sharing.
Graveside services will be held at Anita Evergreen cemetery at 3:50 p m Tuesday for Gertrude L Robison former Anita resident who died Sunday at Mercy hospital Des Moines Funeral rites are at Dunn funeral home at 11 a m Tuesday Royal Neighbors urged to attend She was daughter of the late Han and Edna Robison and survived by a sister Mrs Berdean Richmond and brothers Fred C Don and Russell Robison
Nia Podae dial Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced yesterday that the 1949 March of Dimes raised a record $26,724,000, surpassing the previous year’s $21,600,000.
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